FOF052 - 2016 Australian GP Sins and Redemption

In a Dan-less episode we go over the action during the 2016 Australian GP, including all the mess that led up to it and repercussion coming from it that will affect the year to come. We discuss our reactions to seeing and hearing the 2016 cars tear down a track in anger, as well as the usual dose of ramblings and speculation.

FOF051 - 2016 OZ and Season Preview and State of Affairs

Can you all feel it? Formula 1 IS BACK BABY! And despite anything that Mr. E. might say about it we are super stoked for F1 in 2016. We’re gonna talk about the Australian GP coming up this weekend and we are also announcing our brand new CONTEST - WIN 2016 CANADIAN GP TICKETS and much more in this packed episode!

 

FOF049 - New Quali Rules Drool After Preseason Testing

So basically everything about the new Quali rules from last week went out the window... of course.  Allegedly the software can't be written in time, but maybe it can???  As well, we go over the first week of testing and the new cars and liveries, and a few other details that have come up over testing which are probably going to affect the season going forwards...

FOF048 - New Quali Rules Rule Preseason Testing

Mike caught the flu so we put together a shorter version of the show this week focusing on the new Qualifying format just announced yesterday which may come into effect as early as Melbourne, the testing results so far, and a little bit about the opinions on the Halo system which has also just been announced...

FOF047 - Canadian International Auto Show Special

It is extremely unfortunate, and we regret to tell you that the main-body portion of this week's podcast was recorded without audio due to a technical error involving a loose cable.  It won't happen again!  On the fortunate side, there hasn't been a whole lot of real F1 news this week so we mostly talked about silly business in the sport...

FOF046 - Flat Out FEVER For Real

We start with a review/overview of the changes to the 2016 grid from cars to drivers to the power units behind them.  A refresher for those familiar, and a primer for those who aren't. Getting closer to 2016 testing and Australia, more and more details are beginning to emerge on the changes to the "power units" for this season.  Are Mercedes REALLY afraid of Ferrari?..

FOF045 - The KMAG Cliffs Come Back

Park the Maldozer! We’re gonna talk about the recent developments regarding the Team Lotus, Now Team Renault driver lineup for this year and why it’s very exciting (Kevin Magnussen).  We also look at the billionaire behind KMAG, how he made this happen, as well as some of the great "comebacks" in recent F1 history...

FOF044 - XWET Test Plus News

This week we started with the wet-weather test at Circuit Paul Ricard in France for Pirelli testing their new XWET compounds over two days.  We moved on to a follow-up to Geneva and the law-type proceedings surrounding F1 which took place there last week...

FOF043 - Pre-Season (Format) Testing

Hang with us as we try out some new things with the show during the off-season.  Apologies for the terrible editing this week, the transition might be rough, but we believe it will be better in the long term.  This week we got into the details that came out of Geneva about Formula 1 2017...

FOF042 - Slippery When XWET

We talked about the Pirelli Wet Weather Tyre Testing Party coming up, we had a few words on Sergio Marchionne and the future of F1, there's a bit of Tag-Bull token speculation, the 2016 changes to the cars and engine, and DC going to 4...

FOF041 - Happy New Year! FOF Back in Studio

We begin to look deeper at the new FIA International Court of Appeal and how judges are appointed to their posts.  We look at the progress HAAS racing has made leading up to the preseason testing in a few weeks.  We take a special look at Switzerland and their motor racing heritage... or lack thereof...

FOF040 - New Years Mini Episode

In our last episode of this year, we go over some recent news from the new HAAS F1 team, we clarify a few things about the 2016 Pirelli tire rules, we talk about how the 2017 rule shakedown could be on shaky grounds and we discuss a few things we are looking forward to in the year to come...

FOF035 - The Last One Before the Last One This Year

This week we laughed at Maldonado for a minure about how he defended his style, and at Lewis for crashing his Zonda. The final race at Yas Marina in Abu Dhabi is this weekend, so of course we looked forward to that. Today was also the day of an F1 strategy group meeting, and we had a look at the agenda...

FOF034 - Grande Processio do Bore-sil

This week we spent some time looking over the penultimate Grand Prix of the 2015 Formula 1 season.  We definitely didn't think this race was as boring as everyone else seems to have, but maybe soooomething could have spiced it up... We moved on from the race, to a feature discussing some things that you probably didn't know about the three brake suppliers to Formula 1...

FOF033 - Ferrari's Smoking Veto Vote

The Brazilian Grand Prix is this weekend, get excited!  We preview the race and go over some of the recent changes to the circuit at Interlagos (Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace).  As well, we had a laugh comparing Rosberg's 2014 pole lap to the speed of the record-setter of Montoya in 2004.
We talked about what some of the recent personnel changes at McLaren...